Opinion: Al Gore: The Climate Change Hack

Potomac Watch columnist Kim Strassel on how Al Gore has found gainful employment hyping up the threats of climate change. Photos: Getty Images

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... she has them ... you see the bees adds that a lot of time ... lots and lots of ... where to get the money I wonder ... I don't wonder because I know I'm you know ... they get ... from wealthy special ... interests ... mostly corporate ... special interests ... who are and rested ... in particular ... legislative agendas ... and they are increasingly brazen ... in demanding quid pro quo ... four ... the campaign ... contributions ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... that was former Vice President Al Gore and a recent speech at Stanford ... when basting the ranch ... I shared a common is its only my calmness came straw soul from Washington can ... is this the pot calling the kettle black ... love that ... fun as part of that that's the isthe India we are coming from other breaks ... that I know these days the little known fact about Al Gore is he ... thinking that politics is done very well on things like his ... Current TV and that stock he said if that works on some estimates two hundred million dollars his ... Mitt Romney's style wealthy so ... for him to meet the love that it's great to make a lot of money ... I've that there is always something a little fishy about wealthy people calling other wealthy people the problem ... well he he and I especially enjoyed his comment that special interests ... the square that circle when you when you look at a town chorus work with Kleiner Perkins ... yet that is though the funnest part of this beach ... you know Al Gore was hired by Kleiner Perkins this very important venture capital firm out in California ... not because he knew everything about technology and was heading history that was because he offered them access ... to Washington ... and and this is Ben Kleiner Perkins a lot of these Beastie that done this in recent years especially those involved in the green tech area ... they become very politically savvy it hired Washington insiders ... Kleiner Perkins a cell that donated his partners something like two million dollars to ... candidates mid twenty twelve election and that most of them Democrats ... why would they do this we found out I'll lot of the company that they put money into the back ... what they did the same ones that come to Washington and wanted to loans that grants the subsidies ... and we've seen come out in some series recently over those friends inflate Fisker which was backed by Kleiner Perkins ... the live there and Kleiner Perkins doesn't win in Washington lobbying using them access to try to be sure that their own companies are backing getting ... at government dollars well this is the larger point and without Al bore ... the inconvenient truth and the Nobel peace Prize ... is arguable as to whether or not we would have had such a crony use ... green industry ... growing up in Washington in other capitals around the world ... in recent years do you agree is history ... look one of the day is special interests out there has banned the climate community there's a lot of people signing take these scenes companies ... that stand to make a great deal of money on the back of climate alarmist ... um and so when Mr Gore Kosan complex the that that has been a dominating theme not just in the media play in the politics of Washington over recent years it's why ... the president devoted so much money from the stimulus its entry into these renewable projects that we've now seen ... go flowing out the door to a lot of companies that were paw really bad and ended up costing taxpayers a lot of money ... well Vice President Al Gore taking hypocrisy to new lows ... Potomac watch columnist Kim straw soul thank you so much for being with us ...